Great to see him get angry. That's exactly what we need from him.

So does this mean it is all the players fault that they are acheiving nothing and not the coach's? Does it mean we are stuck with Powell for what seems forever? How depressing is that.

Strong words

Out of curiosity who will assess the playing performance? Who in the club knows if we are fit enough for example? What will they compare it to?

What he needs to say is.....

Did it happen?

Words are easy - it's actions that matter!

Powell has always been in over his head. No real education in the game and I doubt he has the dressing room at the club.

He should have never been given the post last year, and Hughes is wasting his money spending the cap with blind freddy at the wheel.

backroom staff have been decimated due to poor performances.........meanwhile, Powell stumbles on.

Assuming they were fired and not walked? whichever not exactly set the work alight have they, but that in turn comes right back to the door of one of the people supposedly carrying out the review



Strong words from DH but to what end? playing staff e, ok, why? it really cannot be that difficult to come up with an answer from them, it also is beyond belief that it takes being knocked out in the cup for this process to supposedly start. What have the board been thinking about this past 3 months?

What the hell are the staff measured by, I would have had a new ringpiece fitted by now, not to mention the spanish archer if my or my teams performances were tracking as bad as this clubs, and it's not just this season is it.

Assuming DH is as mickied off as he says, then grab the thing by the balls, Gus gets the club moving across all fronts, no excuses, seasons end to turn all areas around and demonstrate a palpable increase in ST sales for 2013 based upon at least retaining 100% of current ST holders let alone increasing the F%cking numbers.
If you can't do it Gus, then do the right thing and f&ck off now, buck stops with you.

All that [uAND[/u you want him to dress up as a mascot too

OK it has been the 2 weeks now since the announcement from the board regarding the review (see OP). If as we would hope Hughes and Gus already had their finger on the pulse, then 2 weeks should be plenty of time to come up with initial findings and recommendations.

If they want to hang on to the few fans they have and want the review to be seen as a positive, then they need to keep the remaining fans engaged......if they say nothing and just allow the matter to drift, then fans will just see this as another opportunity lost; another nail in the club coffin and even more will walk away, probably never to return.

The announcement about Bailey (although any additional experience is welcome) is vague......we all understand recruitment, but player logistics?......we should not have to second guess what this means and make up our own interpretation.

The club need to come up with a time-line for this review and when the fans might reasonably expect some feedback. They need to recognise that we are down to the hardcore fans now and our stock as a club has never been so low.......they need to make this review a positive step, not another cock-up in the long line of cock-ups that there seem to have been this season.

DH will announce that everything is OK on the pitch after the Widnes game if we win......or by facebook if we lose


Review of what? We were 3 weeks ago, crapola a week later and dire last week.......nothing has changed and only the most 1 eyed of us expects a win on Sunday at Hell Vue......back office staff gonski......
Anything under 3k and a convincing win on June 9th and it's time for the broom to sweep clean IMO........

Totally agree. Never met Gus but it sounds like it's everyone else's fault. So he should take a good hard look in the mirror because he is no different to the coach, your only as good as the team you work with but you are responsible to motivate them. From all the issues that have not been resolved (kit sponosr etc), does he really think that we believe that this is because of his staff lack of effort? Anyone who has been in any managers role must be scratching their heads wondering how he still has a job. Would love to know what KPI's he get's judged by

Seems to be a constant problem at the club, coach McDermott always blamed everyone but himself at press conferences, of course he could never be at fault?

Sorry but how is the crap team anything to do with Gus? Yes he's in charge of the backoffice/marketing etc but frankly, he has had nothing to build on this season so far (and I don't recall him blaming anyone for anything other than a reference to the fact that we need a winning team to build our attendances...how is that wrong?)

Re Brian Mc, don't recall him blaming anyone for anything. He simply doesn't like dealing with the media at all and it shows. He was always good at not blaming the refs unlike some of the Aussie coaches over here who bleat all the time about them.

One thing I remember about Brian Mc is that he said we had to change the whole losing culture of this club...he found that everybody expected to lose to the big teams and sort of accepted it. He wanted to change the attitude here and I don't think he or anyone else will change it. From Chad Randall's BBC interview it would seem that lack of belief is a major problem.

When a big bank gets embroiled in a scandal, who are the people who take responsibility?

The answer to that is nobody, Dave! Just saying the rugby side of things is not under Gus's control. He has stated that on the radio.

I liked the attitude of Tony Currie he thought we could beat anybody and we quite often did.

November 1st, 2011 - Official announcement that the Broncos are back.
February 4th 2012 - First competative game back as the London Broncos in London.

63 Working days (allowing for Xmas break and New Year)..........and this is the important bit.......4,924 fans to game 1 at Home.

I know it was cold, but 13,700+ the weekend before and 13,500 the weekend after, are what the Landlords got.........and 3 weeks after this loss to Saint Helens, where we were competative and after the expected hammering by wire and another close (8 point) loss to Hull FC, 3,000 LESS FANS ROLL UP FOR GAME #2.

Now I have never said attracting fans to the club was easy...I have always said it would involve a lot of very very hard work and commitment, but that is UNACCEPTABLE in my book.

1 x 1/4 page in the ES, coupled with adverts at the 4 nations the previous YEAR and 12 Black Cabs is not a campaign and shows a total lack of understanding YET AGAIN of what is on offer and how to market it.


I agree, 150% that a winning team would help, but the 2 games in February are evidence of the club YET AGAIN believing their own hype.........16 years of expecting people to just show up and the penny still hasn't dropped.








At the start of the season I went on record that I wouldn't post about the farce unfolding until after the Castleford Home game and I didn't, but how anyone can blame the first 3 games back at the stoop averaging less than the previous season on anyone other than the Marketing Team and those that employed them is a mystery.
Yes, RP and the Squad are no doubt to blame for the lack of fans since March, but Month 1 should have seen a bigger average than 3,092....



If you are Kind.....and say that David Hughes sprang ther name change on Gus on October 30th, then there have been 143 days that we have had to find a sponsor......we have a f()cking local dentist and a magazine that gives us less coverage than our official media partner.....the shirts, no matter what reason is given, should have been available for purchase the day of the rebarand announcement...along with bumper stickers sent to everyone on the RFL's (London) and the clubs databases...the press should have been invited to pre-season training camps, gower should have been rolled out at every walkabout in town along with the other NRL GF winners.........

Bumper Stickers? can't remember when I last saw one of them on a vehicle in the UK? a classy car sticker Yes! that would have been simple and not costly!

Cap stickers are never classy.

'IN YOUR OPINION'

Now how have we got onto CAP STICKERS!

now this is a completely new marketing tool one I have never used is my career, enlighten me more please, (In) Your Opinion on this new subject interests me greatly!

That's what happens when you attempt to post on your BlackBerry while stood on a packed train